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The perfect place for growing your skills
"We are leaders of the free and open source software industry"
Savoir-faire Linux recognizes your skills and creates the conditions to nurture and expand them without compromise. Throughout its history, Savoir-faire Linux has placed its teams expertise at the core of its service offering. We have developed a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration that allows us to learn from each other and reach out to our communities.
Khaled Bali
Integration platforms
« I gave a party for time-travelers ... I sat there a long time, but no one came » - Stephen Hawking
Holding a master’s degree in computer engineering from Algeria and Canada, I’m currently working at Savoir-faire Linux as a Tech Lead within the Integration Platform team. Being part of Savoir-faire Linux since 2016, the challenges I have faced have continued to evolve and have allowed me to develop new skills in the open source environment.
Tasks
- Developement and management of Java and Liferay projects
- Team management
- Code review
Lauranne Vera
Digital innovation, web and mobility
« People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. » - John C. Maxwell
Graduate in Computer Engineering and Organizational Management, I started in Savoir-Faire Linux as an intern in mobile development. Now, I work on continuous improvement of my colleagues' work practices while helping them manage web projects. My goal: to create an environment that encourages the professional development of my colleagues!
Tasks
- Collect employees feedback on their daily work
- Help set up natural problem-solving processes in teams
- Promote the relationship between employees and management
- Web projects management
Jacob Cook
Digital innovation, web and mobility
« Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. » - Seneca
Trained in Web Development, I am presently the Vice President of the Digital Innovation, Web and Mobility department. Truly passionate about creating quality software in the free and open-source field, I am particularly interested in decentralization of traditional networks and communication methods. My experience as the maintainer of several open-source software projects led me to work for Savoir-faire Linux where I manage specific projects for clients, with the same rigor and interest.
Tasks
- Oversight of the Web and Mobile teams
- Coaching and management of team HR
- Crafting service offers and setting technical direction
- Django and Node.js software development
Yannick Adanminakou
Administration
« Make thy thought an empire...Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. » - Kasidah, Richard F. Burton
Holding a master’s degree in e-Commerce, I am presently the Account Manager and Head of Training Department at Savoir-faire Linux. I am passionate about corporate finance, digital technologies and knowledge economy fields. My vocational experience and formal education have helped me better understand the interrelationships between digital technologies and firm-level economic performance. I am always curious to anticipate the impacts of the digital transformation strategies in the broader context of society.
Tasks
- Customer relationship management for severals departments
- New projects development and contracts management
- Corporate training planning and follow-up
Mojgan Mahaki
Infrastructures and systems Architecture
« If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together » - African proverb
Holding a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, I joined Savoir-faire Linux in 2016 as a trainee. Later, I became a GNU/Linux system administrator and a free software consultant. I gradually took charge of internal IT support activities and performed tasks such as installing workstations, preparing training digital environments and dealing with various corporate infrastructure servers.
Tasks
- GNU / Linux servers administration (RedHat, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian)
- Infrastructure and Linux environment configuration (employees workstations, servers, training environment)
- Employees and clients IT support
- Company Directory Administration (Open LDAP, FusionDirectory)
- Maintenance of virtual platforms (KVM)
Philippe Gorley
Ring Team
« Multimedia is essentially endless pain. » - wm4
As a multimedia systems developer for the Ring project, Free and Open Source represents, in my opinion, a large community of passionate people from across the world who share their knowledge and know-hows and who participate in improving things together. My experience in the microelectronic field helped me to become a talented person in the low level development
Tasks
- Mutimedia systems development in C/C++
- Encoder configurations tests and optimization
- GPU integration in the video pipeline
- Code review
Main contributions
- Volunteer in the Club Avenir association
- Montreal JavaUserGroup participant
- AstroMcGill workshops participant
- Development of an intercom using Ring.cx
- Spark the Change Montreal 2018
- Creation of a decentralized and self-hosted software platform: arkOS
- Creation of news aggregator https://slowne.ws/
- Maintainer of several open-source libraries, like python-nginx
- TR DESIGN co-founder, creator of the leather goods brand FENOSKIN (Lyon, France)
- Developing e-commerce projects (e.g., web integration platform for supermarkets), ICI 2014, Côte d’Ivoire
- Contributing to Persian translation of GNU Ring project
- Development of Ring, the communication platform
- Contribution to the fcd decompiler
